We are a company designing high-quality, anodized aluminum enclosure for the latest Raspberry Pi 3, that allow to cool the Pi passively using the enclosure as a heatsink.

You can find more information on our store. We'd like to know your feedback and what you think of it!

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Could you include picture of the bottom plate? Are you going to sell these cases in europe? Or even Amazon, Ebay...?

Hope you will like it. Due to the high cost of CNC Machining, we could not sell our product on websites such as Amazon without rising our prices, that most people already find high. We are currently only selling them through our website (we should be back on stock by July, and taking back-orders for the ones that want their cases ASAP).

We are shipping to Europe! Please check the shipping calculator on our websiteto see the cost. Delivery times with Surface packages are 4 to 8 weeks, Air is 5 to 10 business days.

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I actually have a Flirc on the way as my Pi keeps thermal throttling anytime I try to do anything really fun with it...
But it's pretty standard stuff at this point and it's not finned at all. Plus the LEDs don't really show on the Pi 3.
It's cheap though, which is a solid win.

Hi,
does the SoC and USB chips make full contact with the enclosure heatsink piece or is there a small gap? I would prefer using thermal paste instead of pads for much better thermal conductivity. If there is a gap, how big is it exactly (mm)? I could put a copper plate between the SoC and the heatsink.
Does the Wifi/bluetooth chip underside of the board make contact with the bottom plate of the enclosure? If not, how much space is there between the chip and the bottom plate?

This looks to be the best passively cooled Rpi3 case currently. It's a shame that it's very expensive for Europeans. Total cost for me would be over 79 USD (VAT 24% and slowest/cheapest postage included).

Rompe wrote:Hi,
does the SoC and USB chips make full contact with the enclosure heatsink piece or is there a small gap? I would prefer using thermal paste instead of pads for much better thermal conductivity. If there is a gap, how big is it exactly (mm)? I could put a copper plate between the SoC and the heatsink.
Does the Wifi/bluetooth chip underside of the board make contact with the bottom plate of the enclosure? If not, how much space is there between the chip and the bottom plate?

This looks to be the best passively cooled Rpi3 case currently. It's a shame that it's very expensive for Europeans. Total cost for me would be over 79 USD (VAT 24% and slowest/cheapest postage included).

After looking at the website for Europe expedition, total cost is 62.2 USD, which is below the amount you specify. Also, being from Canada, we do not charge VAT. The cost for manufacturing such massive block of aluminum, anodizing, engraving it, and keeping the high level of quality that this case have, of course have a cost. We hope to be able to lower this in the future though.

There is a 0.5mm gap between the Raspberry Pi CPU / USB Chip and the case. You should be able to directly put a thin sheet of copper to fill the gap, or even directly put enough thermal grease, if thermal pads do not suit you.

For the Wifi Chip, there is a 1.5mm gap between the chip and the bottom plate.

Google translator:
This is probably a silly question, but I'm wondering if the reset button in this beautiful case is safe to use?

The metal piece you are touching is not directly connected to the reset pins of the Pi, it is pushing on a plastic button, which itself is connected to the reset pin of the Raspberry Pi. Also, you are free to connect it to any other GPIO of the Pi, to use it as a shutdown button.

Google translator:
This is probably a silly question, but I'm wondering if the reset button in this beautiful case is safe to use?

The metal piece you are touching is not directly connected to the reset pins of the Pi, it is pushing on a plastic button, which itself is connected to the reset pin of the Raspberry Pi. Also, you are free to connect it to any other GPIO of the Pi, to use it as a shutdown button.

I was concerned about the safety of Raspberry Pi, not mine. Otherwise. How does the reset button work? Like extract and insert a power supply, or like the "reboot" command?

In my network WiFi has to cover 3 stories and about 2800 sq. feet of floor space. I find it hard to believe that a metal case enclosing a chip antenna, with only a few small apertures, won't heavily attenuate the signal at most points of our 3D space. Only 1 to 4 db reduction... Sorry, that doesn't jive with my engineering experience.

Nice cooling solution though.

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